Canadian scientists to participate in innovative research through the 2023 Human Frontier Science Program
The international Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) organization has announced the results of its 2023 research grants and postdoctoral fellowships funding opportunities. The HFSP facilitates interdisciplinary, breakthrough research collaborations between researchers from over 70 different countries.
HFSP Research Grants
The 2023 HFSP Frontier Research Grants will support projects under the theme of “Complex mechanisms of living organisms”. The program funds cutting-edge projects and enables global collaboration by bringing together teams of scientists from across the world.
Four projects funded through this program involve researchers based in Canada.
- Evolution of protein multifunctionality
Researchers: Belinda Chang (University of Toronto, Canada), Roberto Feuda (University of Leicester, UK), Martin Goepfert (University of Göttingen, Germany), Anant Menon (Cornell University, USA) - The architecture of photosynthesis
Researchers: Anja Geitmann (McGill University, Canada), Craig Brodersen (Yale University, USA), John Dear (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK), Matteo Pezzulla (Aarhus University, Denmark) - Electrogenetic control of bacterial metabolism, communication, and biofilm formation
Researchers: Lisa Craig (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Nikhil Malvankar (Yale University, USA (India)), Olivera Francetic (Institut Pasteur, France), Carlos Salgueiro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) - Exploring the evolution and physiology of the olfactory-immune system connection
Researchers: Ben Matthews (University of British Columbia, Canada (USA)), Tina Mukherjee (Institute for Stem cell science and regenerative medicine, India), Mario Recker(University of Exeter, UK (Germany)), João Trindade Marques (Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas, Brazil)
Learn more about the 2023 HFSP Research Grants.
HFSP Fellowships
The 2023 HFSP Fellowship Awards will support outstanding young researchers. The selected researchers will begin life sciences research in a laboratory in a new country.
Two researchers from Canada have been selected as fellows.
- The role of microbiomes in the origin of animals
Fellow: Jennah Dharamshi (Uppsala University, Sweden) - Inferring the strength of selection along environmental gradients using whole-genome sequence data
Fellow: James Santangelo (University of Toronto, Canada)
Learn more about the 2023 class of HFSP fellows.
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